In 1770 there were about 4. 84 million inhabitants in GDL, of which the largest ethnic group were Ruthenians, about 1. 39 million – Lithuanians.

Attempts by governor John Skottowe ( 1764 – 1782 ) to regularise the sale of arrack and punch led to some hostility and desertions by a number of troops who stole boats and were probably mostly lost at sea — however, at least one group of seven soldiers and a slave succeeded in escaping to Brazil in 1770.

The group continued northward but missed Monterey Harbor and returned to San Diego on January 24, 1770.

This group also helped establish the College of Charleston in 1770, the oldest college in South Carolina and the oldest municipally supported college in the United States.

A further step was the 1770 paper Réflexions sur la résolution algébrique des équations by the French-Italian mathematician Joseph Louis Lagrange, in his method of Lagrange resolvents, where he analyzed Cardano and Ferrarri's solution of cubics and quartics by considering them in terms of permutations of the roots, which yielded an auxiliary polynomial of lower degree, providing a unified understanding of the solutions and laying the groundwork for group theory and Galois theory.

The group returned to San Diego in 1770.

Chatham was regranted in 1770 by his nephew, Governor John Wentworth, to a group including Samuel Langdon, president of Harvard College and creator of the " Blanchard Map " of the North Country.

The Tithe Pig, group by Derby Porcelain, c. 1770

In 1770 Hopkins once again became Chief Justice of the Rhode Island Supreme Court, and during this tenure became a principal player in the colony's handling of the 1772 Gaspee Affair, when a group of irate Rhode Island citizens boarded a British revenue vessel, and burned it to the waterline.

The Regulators had been operating in North Carolina for some time, and in 1770 it was reported that the group dragged Hooper through the streets in Hillsborough during a riot.

Kiriri ( Hammond Island ) is the other permanently settled island of this group ; Tuined ( Possession Island ) is noted for Lt. James Cook's landing there in 1770.

He was one of the first group of associate members of the Royal Academy, elected in August 1770, and was elected a full member the following March, on the casting vote of the academy's president, Sir Joshua Reynolds.

Tupaia ( c. 1725 – December 1770 ) was a Polynesian navigator and arioi ( Tohunga or priest ), originally from the island of Ra ' iatea in the Pacific Islands group known to Europeans as the Society Islands.

First discovered in 1770 by a group of hunters, Rockhouse is a popular site for camping.

Between May 1770, when he first began working on the defense, and the trial in July, he acquired, for the price of $ 50, grants from Wentworth to about of land in Poultney and Castleton.

* July 24 – Benning Wentworth, colonial governor of New Hampshire ( d. 1770 )

It would be incorporated by Governor John Wentworth in 1770.

Due to the inability of its original grantees to settle the remote area, however, it was regranted in 1770 by Colonial Governor John Wentworth, who renamed it Colebrook Town after Sir George Colebrooke, the East India Company's chairman of the board.

It was granted in 1763 by Governor Benning Wentworth, and incorporated in 1770 by Governor John Wentworth.

Benning Wentworth ( 24 July 1696 – 14 October 1770 ) was the colonial governor of New Hampshire from 1741 to 1766.

* New Hampshire Individuals of Note: Benning Wentworth ( 1696 – 1770 )

In 1770, the New York Supreme Court ( which included members holding competing titles to some of the Wentworth grants ) advanced New York's case by declaring all of Wentworth's grants invalid.

Settlers failed to meet the terms of the original grant, so the plantation was transferred in 1770 to grantees including Sir James Cockburn, 8th Baronet, after which it was named Cockburn Town, incorporated in 1797.

But those settlers forfeited their grant by failure to comply with the requirements of the charter, so the territory was re-granted to Dartmouth College on January 19, 1770.

The region was divided among strongly fortified castles, and in 1191 Thomas I of Savoy found it necessary to grant to the communes a Carta delle Franchigie (" Charter of Liberties ") that preserved autonomy — rights that were fiercely defended until 1770, when they were revoked in order to tie Aosta more closely to the Piedmont, but which were again demanded during post-Napoleonic times.

In 1770, a grant of the island was made to Captain William Owen ( 1737 – 1778 ) of the Royal Navy, who renamed it Campobello.

In 1671 James Ross obtained a fee farm grant of these and in 1770 David Kerr purchased the islands from the Earl of Clanbrassil.

They include photostatic copies of a journal of Carver's expedition to the Mississippi River ( 1766 – 1767 ), a Survey journal, and a Dictionary of the Naudowessee language, and typed transcripts of these documents ; copies of surveys and deeds to the Carver land grant of 1767, which encompassed some four million acres in present-day western Wisconsin ; copies of letters about the French and Indian War ( 1759 ) and James Tute's gifts to the Indians ( 1768 ); copies of two petitions to the British government ( 1769 – 1770 ) asking that Carver be reimbursed for his expedition to the Mississippi ; and a copy of a recommendation by the British government on this request.

A claimant to the Coorg throne had asked for Hyder's assistance in 1770 when he was preoccupied with the Marathas.

Writing to Sir Horace Mann in May 1770 Horace Walpole asked " What do you think of a winter Ranelagh erecting in Oxford Road, at the expense of sixty thousand pounds ?".

The trial, for which Allen hired Jared Ingersoll to represent the grantholder interest, began in July 1770, pitting Allen against politically powerful New York grant-holders, including New York's Lieutenant Governor Colden, James Duane ( who was prosecuting the case ), and Robert Livingston, the Chief Justice of the Supreme Court ( who was presiding over the case ).

In 1811 he co-operated with William Allen ( 1770 – 1843 ), a Quaker and chemist, in a periodical called the Philanthropist.

* Johnson, Allen S. A prologue to revolution: the political career of George Grenville ( 1712 – 1770 ).

Close by were the residences of three prominent Quaker abolitionists: William Allen ( 1770 – 1843 ), Joseph Woods the elder, and Samuel Hoare Jr ( 1751 – 1825 ).

* William Allen ( Quaker ) ( 1770 – 1843 ), English Quaker, scientist and philanthropist

* William Allen ( Quaker ) ( 1770 – 1843 ), English Quaker, scientist and philanthropist

Trout Hall ( built 1770 ) is the oldest house in Allentown, Pennsylvania, and was built by James Allen, son of William Allen.

From 1867 to 1905, Muhlenberg College was located in Allentown's Trout Hall, a mansion built in 1770 by James Allen, son of William Allen ( loyalist ) | William Allen.

William Allen FRS FLS FGS ( 29 August 1770 – 30 September 1843 ) was an English scientist and philanthropist who opposed slavery and engaged in schemes of social and penal improvement in early nineteenth century England.

Other notable violinists included Antonio Vivaldi ( 1678 – 1741 ) and Giuseppe Tartini ( 1692 – 1770 ), who, in their compositions, reflected the increasing technical and musical demands on the violinist.

When the Druk Desi invaded Sikkim in 1770, Cooch Behari forces joined their Bhutanese counterparts in the offensive.

The family Van Aerssen only succeeded to sell their share in 1770.

Traditional location of Sioux tribes prior to 1770 ( dark green ) and their current reservations ( orange )

By the end of 1770 missions and military presidios had been founded at San Diego to the south of Chumash lands and Monterey, to their north.

Gluck and Calzabigi followed Orfeo with Alceste ( 1767 ) and Paride ed Elena ( 1770 ), pushing their innovations even further.

The mountain's English name was bestowed on it by Lieutenant James Cook in May 1770, as his expedition in command of the Endeavour passed it by on their route northwards along the eastern coastline of Australia.

The islands were given their collective name and also English names by Captain Cook when he sailed through the area in 1770.

The Sunbury Trail was the first road through Schuylkill County and was known as the Kings Highway which was authorized by the Crown of England, King George III in 1770. The early settlers engaged in timbering as their first livelihood, but experienced difficulty in transporting the heavy logs out of the valley.

The Southern Alps were named by Captain Cook on March 23, 1770, who described their " prodigious height ".

However, the Maniots continually resisted Ottoman rule, and defeated several Ottoman incursions into their region, the most famous of which was the invasion of 1770.

His last important work was the Palingénésie philosophique ( Geneva, 1769 – 1770 ); in it he treats of the past and future of living beings, and supports the idea of the survival of all animals, and the perfecting of their faculties in a future state.

In 1770, King Taksin launched a war against the Nguyễn Lords over their control of Cambodia.

During their relationship, Ray bore him at least five and perhaps as many as nine children, including Basil Montagu ( 1770 – 1851 ), writer, jurist and philanthropist Tragedy was to strike again in April 1779 when Ray was murdered in the foyer of the Royal Opera House at Covent Garden by a jealous suitor, James Hackman, Rector of Wiveton.

In 1770, King Charles III declared the to be the official " Honour March " for the Sovereigns and the Royal Family, as it was played at public and ceremonial events, and because it was always played at public events attended by the royal family, Spaniards soon came to regard the as their national anthem and called it the, or " Royal March ".

Based on the caterpillar track ( first invented in 1770 and perfected in the early 1900s ) and the four-stroke gasoline powered Internal combustion engine ( refined in the 1870s ), early World war One tanks were fitted with Maxim type guns or Lewis guns, armor plating, and their caterpillar tracks were configured to allow crossing of an trench.

The Siamese used the Burmese preoccupation with China to recover their lost territories by 1770, and in addition, went on to capture much of Lan Na by 1776, ending over two centuries of Burmese suzerainty over the region.

But in 1770, during the times that the Russian Army marched through the theoretically independent Commonwealth, and foreign powers forced the Sejm to agree to the First Partition of Poland, the confederates started to create an image of Polish exiled soldiers, the last of those who remained true to their Motherland, an image that would in the next two centuries lead to the creation of Polish Legions and other forces in exile.

The French monks became associated with Jansenism, due to which their congregation was suppressed in 1770 and the monks dispersed.

The fleet reached Mani in February 1770, prompting the Maniots to raise their war flags.

In response to a series of Parliamentary taxes on the colonies, Blair joined George Washington and others in 1770 and again in 1774 to draft nonimportation agreements which pledged their supporters to cease importing British goods until the taxes were repealed.

Mysliveček provided his younger friend Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart with significant compositional models in the genres of symphony, Italian serious opera, and violin concerto ; both Wolfgang and his father Leopold Mozart considered him an intimate friend from the time of their first meetings in Bologna in 1770 until he betrayed their trust over the promise of an operatic commission for Wolfgang to be arranged with the management of the Teatro San Carlo in Naples.